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How  Chinas  Leaders 
Received  the  Gospel 


By 

G.  SHERWOOD  EDDY 


THE  FOREIGN  DEPARTMENT 
OF  THE  INTERNATIONAL  COMMITTEE  OF 
YOUNG  MEN’S  CHRISTIAN  ASSOCIATIONS 
124  East  Twenty-Eighth  Stheet 
NEW  YORK 


Governor  of  Fukien  Province. 

GAVE  A DINNER  FOR  ALL  HIS 
OFFICLALS.  TO  WHOM  THE  MES- 
SAGE WAS  GIVEN 


Commissioner  of  Foreign  Affairs 
IN  Chekiang  Province,  con- 
verted AND  KAPTIZED 


HOW  CHINA’S  LEADERS  RECEIVED 
THE  GOSPEL 


During  the  last  half  of  1914,  a tour  was  undertaken  Tours  of 
through  the  thirteen  principal  capital  and  metropolitan  1913  and  1914 
cities  of  China  for  an  extended  evangelistic  campaign.  Compared 
In  1913  Dr.  Mott  and  the  writer  had  visited  many  of 
the  same  cities  on  a similar  mission.  Then  some  4000 
non-Christian  students  and  Chinese  leaders  were 
brought  into  Bible  classes,  and  of  this  number  1300 
applied  for  membership  in  the  churches,  being  re- 
ceived by  baptism  or  on  probation.  During  that  year 
the  student  audiences  averaged  about  2000  a night. 

This  year  interest  so  heightened  that  attendance  at 
the  main  public  meetings  averaged  3000  and  in  five 
cities  of  the  south  4000  a night.  A total  of  more  than 
18,000  inquirers  gave  in  their  names,  promising  to 
make  a study  of  the  four  Gospels  with  open  mind  and 
honest  heart  and  to  begin  to  follow  the  life  and  teach- 
ing of  Jesus  Christ  according  to  their  conscience. 

About  half  this  number  immediately  enrolled  in  Bible 
classes  and  are  being  taught  by  selected  teachers 
specially  prepared  in  normal  courses. 

It  should  be  understood  that  this  manifestation  was  Prepared 
not  accidental,  but  the  result  of  the  most  careful  Ground 
human  organization,  combining  prayer  and  pains,  faith 
and  work,  dependence  upon  God  and  human  effort. 

These  great  meetings  represented  also  long  genesis ; a 
century  of  missionary  seed-sowing  lay  behind  the 
meetings,  without  which  they  would  not  have  been 
possible.  They  represented  also  the  indispensable  co- 
operation of  practically  all  the  missionaries  and  Chi- 


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For  and  By 
the  Churches 


The 

Association’s 

Service 


Other  Guide- 
posts  to  the 
Story 


nese  Christians  in  the  cities  where  the  meetings  were 
held.  Indeed,  we  endeavored  to  enter  no  city  where 
the  Christian  forces  were  not  united  in  the  under- 
taking. 

These  meetings  were  not  the  result  of  the  work  of 
any  one  man  or  organization,  but  were  conducted  for 
and  by  the  churches  in  China.  For  instance,  in  Fukien 
Province  practically  the  entire  missionary  body  and 
the  Chinese  Christians  worked  for  months  in  advance. 
By  prayer  and  by  careful  training  they  prepared  Chi- 
nese leaders  as  Bible  teachers  to  instruct  the  inquirers 
and  converts  on  whom  they  are  now  devoting  months 
of  patient  effort  to  prepare  for  entrance  into  the 
Church.  This  measure  of  cooperation  was  typical  of 
the  other  centers. 

The  distinctive  services  of  the  Young  Men’s  Chris- 
tian Associations  locally  were  intermediary  and  execu- 
tive. Two  representatives  of  the  national  staff  in 
particular  made  outstanding  contributions — Dr.  W.  E. 
Taylor  by  promotion  along  the  three  lines  of  advance 
preparation  in  all  the  cities,  of  cooperation  during  the 
campaigns  and  of  conservation  of  the  results,  in  short, 
the  coordination  of  the  whole  movement ; and  Profes- 
sor C.  H.  Robertson,  who  as  science  lecturer  preceding 
in  some  cities  and  joining  in  others  rendered  decisive 
help  by  breaking  down  prejudice  on  the  part  of  offi- 
cials, gaining  access  to  classes  difficult  of  approach  and 
showing  the  students  of  China  that  there  is  no  contra- 
diction between  true  science  and  true  religion. 

Let  it  be  recognized,  too,  that  there  were  no  easy 
victories.  Nor  is  the  work  now  finished.  Rather  it  has 
raised  great  problems  and  difficulties  which  must  be 
faced.  The  facts  indicate,  however,  a remarkable 
openness  on  the  part  of  the  leaders  of  China  to  give 
an  earnest  hearing  to  the  Gospel  of  Christ.  For  a 
century  three  classes  largely  have  held  aloof  from 
Christianity,  namely,  the  officials,  the  literati  (or  stu- 


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dents)  and  the  business  men  of  China.  To  penetrate 
these  powerful  groups  this  campaign  was  planned. 
To  restrict  attendance  to  these  classes  men  were  ad- 
mitted by  ticket  only.  Our  problem  was  not  to  reach 
the  400,000,000  of  China  but  the  Republic’s  few  hun- 
dred thousand  leaders  in  the  great  centers. 

We  began  in  Tientsin  the  middle  of  September.  On 
the  opening  night  we  made  our  way  down  to  the  great 
Guild  Hall  on  the  modern  electric  tramway  which  runs 
on  the  site  of  the  former  city  wall,  where  as  late  as  the 
siege  of  1900  the  Chinese  fought  to  keep  out  the  “for- 
eign devil”  with  his  hated  civilization  and  religion. 
Arrived  in  the  Guild  Hall,  we  found  2000  students 
crowding  every  seat  and  several  hundred  turned  away 
from  the  doors.  Meetings  were  also  held  for  women 
students.  On  the  last  day  a total  of  over  1000  inquir- 
ers expressed  their  desire  to  join  Bible  classes  in  order 
to  make  a study  of  the  four  Gospels  and  an  honest 
investigation  of  Christianity.  By  November,  120  Bible 
study  groups  were  solidly  under  way.  Last  year  after 
the  meetings  in  this  city,  500  of  these  Confucian  stu- 
dents had  enrolled  in  Bible  classes  conducted  among 
the  students  of  every  one  of  the  fourteen  government 
colleges  and  higher  institutions  in  Tientsin;  and  later 
over  200  of  them  were  received  by  the  churches  either 
by  baptism  or  as  probationers  requesting  admission  to 
the  Church. 

The  next  week  was  filled  with  meetings  in  the  old 
conservative  capital  of  Peking.  We  entered  the  city 
with  a sinking  heart,  “in  weakness,  and  in  fear,  and  in 
much  trembling.”  A great  door  and  effectual  was 
opened  unto  us,  but  there  were  many  adversaries. 
We  gave  ourselves  to  prayer  and  God  answered  in  a 
marvelous  manner.  President  Yuan  Shih  Kai  received 
us  and  expressed  deep  interest  in  the  meetings.  He  is 
liberally  contributing  every  year  to  the  national  work 
of  the  Young  Men’s  Christian  Association.  The  Vice- 


Tientsin— 
Gateway  City 


Peking:,  Seat 
of  Power 


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Spirit  of  1900 
Contrasted 


Three  Thousand  Students  and  Gentry  in  one  of  Shanghai's 
Modern  Theaters 


President  of  the  Republic,  General  Li  Yuan  Hung, 
whom  I had  known  last  year  as  Governor  at  Wuchang, 
gave  us  a special  luncheon  and  requested  us  to  address 
his  family  and  guests.  We  presented  to  him  Chris- 
tianity as  the  hope  of  China. 

The  sympathetic  and  cordial  cooperation  of  the 
officials  and  students  was  in  striking  contrast  to  their 
attitude  in  the  bloody  persecution  of  1900.  The  Min- 
istry of  the  Interior,  at  their  own  suggestion,  granted 
us  a site  for  a pavilion  for  the  meetings,  within  the 
Forbidden  City  itself,  just  in  front  of  the  Imperial 


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Palace,  where  today  resides  the  little  boy  Emperor 
who  abdicated  the  Manchu  throne,  and  where  the 
Dowager  Empress  ruled  with  an  iron  hand  and  guided 
the  Boxer  Uprising  to  its  terrible  conclusion.  It  is 
the  first  time  in  history  that  Christian  meetings  have 
been  allowed  within  this  sacred  precinct.  The  Minis- 
try suggested  that  we  place  this  pavilion  near  the 
sacred  altar  where  the  Emperor  annually  worshiped 
the  “Spirits  of  the  Land.”  It  seemed  of  strange  sig- 
nificance that  near  the  spot  where  the  Emperor  prayed 
to  an  “unknown  God”  for  fruitful  harvests  for  his 
people,  we  should  have  the  priceless  privilege  of  pro- 
claiming God  as  Eather  and  Jesus  Christ  as  Saviour 
at  the  beginning  of  this  great  spiritual  harvest  among 
the  students  and  leaders  of  China.  While  the  Ministry 
of  the  Interior  gave  us  the  site,  the  Ministry  of  War 
granted  200  tents  from  the  army  to  make  the  structure 
rain-proof.  The  Minister  of  Education  granted  a half- 
holiday to  all  the  government  students  in  Peking  to 
enable  them  to  attend  the  opening  meeting. 

On  the  opening  day,  4000  students  crowded  the  hall 
and  listened  with  earnest  attention.  They  interrupted 
almost  every  paragraph  with  enthusiastic  applause. 
After  hard  hitting  on  moral  issues,  however,  the  audi- 
ence on  the  second  day  was  reduced  to  a little  less  than 
3000,  as  we  spoke  on  the  sins  which  are  undermining 
China’s  individual  and  national  life.  On  the  third 
night  we  spoke  for  over  an  hour  on  Jesus  Christ,  the 
only  Hope  of  China.  More  than  1000  men  signed 
cards  as  inquirers  to  join  Bible  classes  from  more  than 
a score  of  colleges  in  the  city.  A meeting  was  also 
held  in  another  part  of  the  city  attended  by  1700  of 
the  gentry  and  business  men.  The  Board  of  Trade 
asked  for  300  reserved  seats  at  this  meeting.  Three 
hundred  and  fifty  of  these  men  indicated  their  desire 
to  join  Bible  classes.  Hundreds  of  the  20,000  men 


Hundreds 

Refused 

Tickets 


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Eminent 

Inquirers 


One  Hundred 

Newspapers 

Enlisted 


who  had  attended  Professor  Robertson’s  science  lec- 
tures the  week  before  had  to  be  refused  tickets  for 
the  evangelistic  meetings  in  order  to  concentrate  on 
picked  audiences  of  students  and  officials.  Last  year, 
with  far  less  preparation,  of  500  non-Christians  en- 
rolled in  the  Peking  Bible  classes,  more  than  150  were 
received  by  the  churches.  The  visible,  direct  results 
this  year  will  be  far  greater. 

The  response  of  Chinese  officials  and  leaders  is  the 
more  notable  here  in  the  capital  city,  long  the  most 
conservative  center  of  China.  At  one  meeting  held  for 
inquirers  who  were  deemed  near  the  point  of  decision 
for  the  Christian  life  I recognized  a former  Governor, 
two  generals,  a private  secretary  to  the  President,  the 
director  of  China’s  national  bank,  other  prominent 
officials,  and  a young  non-Christian  philanthropist  who 
within  a year  has  given  $12,000  Mexican  to  Christian 
work,  and  is  providing  free  education  for  several  hun- 
dred students  and  distributing  the  Bible  to  hundreds 
in  the  capital. 

In  addition  to  the  14,000  who  attended  the  evangelis- 
tic meetings  in  Peking,  the  message  w'as  extended  to 
thousands  of  readers  by  the  twelve  Chinese  news- 
papers of  the  city  which  published  the  reports  of  the 
lectures.  Many  of  them  are  continuing  a series  of 
articles  on  Christianity.  Over  100  newspapers  in 
China  are  thus  cooperating  in  this  Christian  campaign. 

Nearly  200  Chinese  Christian  young  men  were  nor- 
mally trained  in  advance  to  lead  the  Peking  Bible 
classes  in  conserving  the  results  of  the  meetings. 
Preaching  places  in  twelve  parts  of  the  city  were 
arranged,  offering  special  Sunday  evening  meetings 
for  the  inquirers  to  relate  them  to  the  churches.  All 
the  Christian  forces  of  the  city  continue  united  in 
splendid  support  of  the  movement  planned  and  carried 
forward  under  the  auspices  of  all  the  churches  in  the 
city. 


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We  next  visited  Changsha,  the  capital  of  Hunan  in 
Inland  China,  long  the  most  bigoted  of  the  provinces. 
I remember  some  twenty  years  ago  writing  a little 
pamphlet  on  “The  Supreme  Decision  of  the  Christian 
Student,”  appealing  for  volunteers  to  enter  unoccu- 
pied Hunan,  which  then  had  over  20,000,000  people 
without  a single  missionary  or  Christian.  As  we  left 
the  steamer  and  entered  the  great  gates  of  the  ancient 
walled  city,  we  saw  the  posters  announcing  the  evan- 
gelistic meetings  on  the  very  notice  boards  where  a few 
years  ago  hung  commandments  to  kill  “foreign  devils 
who  had  come  to  make  medicine  out  of  the  eyes  of 
their  kidnaped  children.”  Here  fourteen,  or  even 
four,  years  ago  we  would  have  been  driven  out  by 
angry  mobs,  but  what  a change  today ! As  we  came 
to  the  opening  meeting,  there  was  a young  missionary 
acting  as  gate-keeper  who  had  first  entered  the  city 
on  Thanksgiving  Day,  1898.  Driven  out  himself  from 
the  city  gate  by  the  officials,  he  had  come  back  a week 
later  by  another  gate,  only  again  to  be  forced  out  and 
driven  down  the  river.  The  next  year  when  he  re- 
turned, he  was  again  attacked  by  the  crowd,  swung  by 
his  queue,  beaten  and  driven  from  the  city  by  an  angry 
mob,  shouting,  “Kill  the  foreigner.”  At  the  meetings 
this  year  he  opened  the  gate  of  the  meeting  to  let  in 
the  throngs  of  modern  students  who  almost  fought 
to  get  tickets  of  admission  to  hear  the  message  of 
Christianity. 

The  meetings  were  held  in  a great  pavilion  erected 
near  the  Confucian  temple,  in  the  grounds  granted  by 
the  Governor  himself.  Three  thousand  students  were 
admitted  by  ticket,  the  Governor’s  band  attended  and 
the  Governor’s  hearty  message  of  greeting  in  approval 
of  the  meetings  was  read  to  the  students  by  the  leading 
government  college  president  in  the  chair.  At  the  close 
of  the  meeting,  the  band  played  “God  be  with  you  till 
we  meet  again.”  We  came  to  the  city  in  answer  to  a 


Long:-Big;oted 

Hunan 


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Plain  Speaking 


Message 
Reenforced  by 
Interpretation 


telegram  from  fifteen  Confucian  principals  of  schools 
and  colleges,  .inviting  us  to  address  their  students. 

I shall  never  forget  the  scene  on  the  second  day. 
After  plain  speaking  on  the  bribery,  graft  and  dis- 
honesty of  the  officials  and  merchants,  and  the  immo- 
rality of  students,  as  the  cause  of  China’s  present 
weakness,  we  had  expected  a falling  off  in  the  attend- 
ance. Nearly  half  an  hour  before  the  time  of  the 
lecture,  however,  the  doors  had  to  be  closed.  Over 
3000  students  were  crowded  into  the  hall,  and  500 
were  gathered  outside  in  an  overflow  meeting  ad- 
dressed by  one  of  the  missionaries.  The  question  in 
every  heart  was,  “What  can  save  our  country?’’  Our 
subject  on  this  day  was,  “The  Hope  of  China.”  We 
asked  the  students  if  they  had  anything  that  could 
save  their  country  and  make  honest  officials,  merchants 
and  students,  but  they  were  silent.  For  an  hour  we 
laid  before  them  the  claims  of  Jesus  Christ  in  the 
appeal  of  His  teaching  to  the  mind,  the  appeal  of  His 
character  to  the  heart,  the  offer  of  His  power  for  the 
will.  A\'e  tried  to  show  that  He  is  able  also  to  solve 
the  social  problems,  to  meet  the  test  of  universality  in 
a Gospel  valid  for  all  men,  and  to  give  the  dynamic 
of  progress  which  China  needs  today,  in  that  He  brings 
us  to  God,  the  ultimate  power  of  the  universe.  Some 
800  of  these  men  game  out  the  next  day,  in  spite  of  the 
rain  and  the  distractions  of  a Chinese  feast  day,  to  be 
assigned  to  Bible  classes. 

As  typical  of  the  change  wrought  in  this  city  and 
province  in  one  short  decade  was  our  interpreter,  Mr. 
Nieh,  who  stood  out  as  a striking  object  lesson  before 
the  students.  He  was  a member  of  the  leading  family 
of  the  city.  His  father  had  been  Governor  of  four 
provinces  in  China.  His  uncle.  Marquis  Tseng,  was 
China’s  Minister  to  England,  France,  Germany  and 
Russia.  His  grandfather  was  Tseng  Kuo  Fan,  China’s 
greatest  statesman  of  the  century.  Four  years  ago  he 


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was  a young  Confucian  atheist.  He  had  hated  Chris- 
tianity for  the  heavy  indemnities  which  his  people  had 
been  made  to  pay  when  Roman  Catholic  Christians 
had  been  injured.  When  his  father,  the  aged  Gov- 
ernor, was  lying  at  the  point  of  death,  he  sent  for  Dr. 

Hume  of  the  Yale  Hospital,  who  had  quietly  become 
his  friend  in  spite  of  the  fact  that  the  young  man 
always  refused  to  speak  of  religion.  As  he  saw  Dr. 

Hume  kneel  at  his  father’s  bedside  and  pray,  he  was 
deeply  moved.  Finally,  after  some  days,  he  said  to 
Dr.  Hume,  “It  is  too  late  to  save  my  father,  but  I want 
you  to  kneel  and  pray  for  me  here  by  my  father’s 
bedside.” 

When  Hunan  seceded  last  year,  this  young  man  Wuchang, 
went  with  a Red  Cross  corps  to  the  front.  Taken  for  Storm  Center 
a spy,  he  was  arrested  and  thrown  into  prison  at  of  Revolution 
Wuchang.  Four  of  his  fellow  prisoners  were  be- 
headed. There,  face  to  face  with  death  without  trial, 
he  turned  to  God,  and  for  the  first  time  in  his  life 
prayed  to  his  Heavenly  Father.  Instantly  a strange 
peace  seemed  to  fill  his  heart  and  in  a moment  he  knew 
that  there  was  a God  and  that  He  had  heard  his  prayer. 

After  his  release  from  prison,  he  was  baptized  last 
Christmas  Day,  but  was  so  weak  that  he  felt  he  could 
not  make  100  Christians  in  the  little  chapel  hear  his 
feeble  testimony.  He  stood  in  the  great  pavilion  and 
swept  that  throng  of  students  with  his  burning  words, 
boldly  testifying  to  Jesus  Christ  as  his  own  Saviour 
and  the  only  hope  of  China. 

We  spent  ten  days  in  three  great  cities  of  the 
Yangtze  Valley.  /^In  Wuchang,  the  situation  fairly 
bristled  with  difficulties.  On  the  opening  night  it 
rained,  yet  more  than  1000  students  came  out  and 
sat  for  an  hour  in  the  rain  with  their  umbrellas  up.  I 
had  to  speak  with  the  rain  on  my  face  or  dripping 
down  my  neck.  But  the  earnestness  of  the  students 
was  such  that  they  remained  to  the  end  in  spite  of 


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Mr.  Xieh.  Sox  of  Governor  of  Four  Provinces, 
Converted  Confvcian  Atheist,  Interpreter, 
AND  Mr.  Eddy 


every  obstacle. : The  next  day  it  rained  all  day,  yet  that 
night  1500  sTudents  came  out  through  the  mud  and 
listened  earnestly  as  we  spoke  on  sin.  On  the  third 
night  2500  students  filled  the  great  pavilion.  After 
speaking  for  an  hour  on  Christ  as  the  only  Saviour 
more  than  2000  remained  to  an  after-meeting  and  400 
enrolled  themselves  as  desiring  to  join  Bible  classes  to 
search  the  Scriptures. 

Last  year  some  of  the  officials  in  the  city  were  op- 
posed to  all  public  meetings  because  of  the  unsettled 
political  conditions.  Wuchang,  in  fact,  is  the  storm- 
center  of  revolutionary  Young  China.  The  officials 
are  always  afraid  of  trouble.  Last  year  they  would 
not  even  let  us  look  in  at  the  great  Heroes’  Temple  of 
the  city,  where  the  Emperor  was  worshiped  under 
the  old  regime.  The  Military  Governor,  after  hearing 
of  our  work  from  the  Vice-President  of  the  Republic, 
General  Li  Yuan  Hung,  who  entertained  us  in  Peking, 
erected  at  his  own  expense  a pavilion  in  this  temple  to 
seat  several  thousand  students,  put  in  an  electric  light 
equipment,  telephone  service,  and  provided  tea  for  all 
guests.  The  Civil  Governor  granted  leave  for  the  stu- 
dents to  attend  the  meetings. 

We  next  went  to  beautiful  Hangchow,  a former 
capital  of  China,  the  southern  center  of  classic  culture 
and  conservatism,  which  so  long  excluded  the  mission- 
ary and  scorned  the  Gospel.  Arrived  in  the  city,  we 
hastened  to  the  modern  theater  where  the  meetings 
were  to  be  held.  The  Confucian  owners  had  granted 
the  theater  for  three  afternoons,  canceling  an  impor- 
tant theatrical  engagement  and  refusing  to  take  the 
several  hundred  dollars  a day  which  was  the  usual 
rental.  Inside  the  theater  we  found  2500  students, 
while  outside  2000  more  were  standing  patiently  for 
an  hour,  waiting  their  turn  to  get  in.  After  delivering 
our  message  to  the  first  audience,  the  theater  was 
emptied  and  filled  again  to  overflowing,  while  the  ad- 


Hangchow's 

Duplicate 

Audiences 


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Entire  Student 
Body  Hear 


A Governor’s 
Dinner 


dress  was  repeated.  The  ^Military  Governor,  who  was 
to  have  taken  the  chair,  at  the  last  moment  was  com- 
pelled to  send  his  representative  to  open  the  meeting 
for  him.  After  we  had  spoken  frankly  on  the  desper- 
ate need  of  China,  the  graft,  corruption  and  moral 
destitution  of  the  country,  we  expected  a smaller  audi- 
ence on  the  second  day.  On  our  arrival  at  the  theater, 
however,  we  found  it  filled  with  2500  students  and  the 
doors  closed.  Two  thousand  men  were  again  kept 
standing  in  the  street  for  over  an  hour  awaiting  the 
second  sittings. 

These  figures  mean  that  the  whole  student  body  of 
the  city,  numbering  4000,  came  out  to  the  meetings, 
and  in  addition  the  officials  and  leaders  of  education 
and  of  trade.  The  Civil  Governor  granted  a half-holi- 
day to  the  students  for  three  successive  days,  and  on 
the  second  day  his  representative  took  the  chair.  After 
we  had  spoken  on  Jesus  Christ,  an  opportunity  was 
given  for  those  who  wished  to  join  Bible  classes  to  do 
so.  More  than  1000  students  enrolled  themselves  as 
inquirers.  Four  years  ago,  immediately  after  the 
meetings,  the  principals  and  teachers  of  the  govern- 
ment colleges  had  forbidden  the  attendance  of  the 
students  at  Bible  classes  and  opposed  our  work.  This 
year  these  same  principals  invited  us  to  a banquet, 
thanked  us  for  helping  them  in  their  work  for  the  stu- 
dents, and  received  cordially  an  address  in  which  we 
asked  for  the  opening  of  the  government  schools  to 
voluntary  Bible  classes.  Our  interpreter  in  Changsha 
was  Mr.  C.  T.  M'ang,  the  young  Christian  statesman 
of  China,  formerly  a member  of  President  Yuan’s 
Cabinet  and  Vice-President  of  the  National  Senate. 
He  is  now'  National  Secretary  of  the  Young  Men’s 
Christian  Association  wdth  Mr.  F.  S.  Brockman. 

On  the  second  night,  the  Military  Governor,  the  . 
Civil  Governor  and  the  officials  of  the  province  invited 
us  to  a banquet.  After  dinner,  the  Governor  requested 


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me  to  address  them.  I showed  them  a series  of  charts 
which  revealed  the  economic  destitution  of  China  com- 
pared with  other  countries  and  which  plainly  showed 
the  moral  bankruptcy  of  the  nation.  I then  spoke  of  , 

Christ  as  the  only  hope  of  China.  I quoted  the  instance 
of  Sergius  Paulus,  the  Roman  Governor,  who  believed 
when  the  Gospel  was  presented  to  him.  I shall  never 
forget  the  scene.  It  was  a privilege  of  a lifetime  to 
present  the  message  of  Christ’s  Gospel  to  these  rulers 
of  the  most  progressive  province  of  China. 

Two  men  stood  out  as  leaders  in  that  group.  There  Two  Leaders 
was  the  young  Governor,  less  than  thirty-five  years 
of  age,  a soldier  in  the  revolution,  now  a general  and 
the  ruler  of  17,000,000  in  this  enlightened  province. 

Beside  him  sat  his  young  Secretary  of  State,  Mr.  S.  T. 

Wen.  A few  years  ago  this  young  man  was  a Confu- 
cianist,  knowing  little  of  Christianity.  With  the  Gov- 
ernor, he  was  one  of  the  leaders  of  the  revolution 
which  made  China  a Republic.  Three  years  ago  he 
came  to  the  province  to  act  as  Minister  for  Foreign 
Affairs  and  Secretary  of  State.  In  1913  he  came  to 
Shanghai  as  the  Governor’s  representative  to  attend 
a banquet  tendered  Dr.  Mott  and  myself  and  to  re- 
quest a modern  Young  Men’s  Christian  Association 
building  for  the  city  of  Hangchow.  Immediately  on 
his  return,  at  his  recommendation,  the  Governor  gave 
a splendid  lot,  covering  two  and  a half  acres  of  the 
most  valuable  land  in  the  center  of  the  Manchu  city. 

Side  by  side,  the  young  Governor  and  his  Secretary  of 
State  carried  on  the  great  fight  against  opium,  until 
recently  they  celebrated  the  absolute  prohibition  and 
cessation  of  this  evil  in  their  province. 

After  I had  stated  the  claims  of  Christianity,  while  Secretary  of 
my  interpreter  was  speaking  with  the  Governor,  I went  State  Baptized 
over  to  the  Secretary  of  State  and  said  to  him : “The 
Ethiopian  said  to  Philip  after  he  had  heard  the  Gos- 
pel, ‘What  doth  hinder  me  to  be  baptized?’  I ask  you. 


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THE  FIRST  PEKIN'G  AUD1EN:CE-4000  GOVERN  1= 


MINISTER  OF  INTERIOR  INSIDE  THE  FORBIDDEN  CITY,  PEKING 


STUDENTS  AND  OFFICIALS  IN  THE  PAVILION 


Will  you  become  a Christian?”  He  said,  “I  will.” 
“When  will  you  receive  baptism  and  join  the  Church?” 
I asked  him.  “Next  Sunday,”  was  his  prompt  re- 
sponse. On  the  following  day  this  fearless  man  took 
the  chair  at  the  meeting  and  stated  publicly  that  he 
had  decided  to  become  a Christian.  Even  the  non- 
Christian  students  broke  out  into  applause  when  he 
made  this  bold  statement.  On  the  following  Sunday 
he  was  baptized.  On  the  same  day,  fulfilling  the  re- 
quest of  President  Yuan  Shih  Kai  for  a day  of  prayer 
for  peace,  the  Governor  and  the  Secretary  of  State 
ordered  prayer  for  the  peace  of  Europe  and  the  world 
to  be  offered  in  all  the  cities  of  his  province.  Truly  the 
Kingdom  is  coming  in  China. 

To  Foochow  Vs.  Leaving  Hangchow,  we  made  our  way  down  the 

Invited  by  the  southern  coast  to  Eoochow,  the  “city  of  joy.”  We 

Governor  went  to  the  province  of  Fukien  in  response  to  a tele- 
gram of  invitation  received  months  before  from  the 
Governor,  the  Chamber  of  Commerce,  the  Minister  of 
Education  and  the  Confucian  principals  of  the  gov- 
ernment colleges.  On  the  morning  the  meetings  were 
to  begin,  I visited  the  quiet  cemetery  where  the  mis- 
sionary martyrs  of  Foochow  lie  buried.  I stood  be- 
side the  eleven  graves  of  those  who  were  mobbed,  torn 
limb  from  limb  and  hacked  to  pieces  less  than  twenty 
years  ago,  and  then  went  to  the  Guild  Hall  for  the 
meetings.  Two  thousand  Confucian  students  and 
young  men  were  crowding  every  seat  in  the  hall,  and 
almost  an  equal  number  were  standing  outside  in  an 
overflow  meeting,  waiting  to  hear  the  message  re- 
peated. Sitting  on  the  platform  was  the  aged  Arch- 
deacon Y'olfe.  When  he  arrived  in  China  fifty-two 
years  ago,  there  were  but  four  Christians  in  this  part 
of  the  Empire.  He  himself  was  driven  out  of  the 
city.  Now  practically  every  student  in  the  city 
attended  the  meetings,  as  well  as  the  leaders  of  every 
section  of  the  community.  On  the  second  day,  the 


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hall  was  again  twice  filled,  and  600  students  and  others 
enrolled  themselves  as  inquirers  to  join  Bible  classes 
to  study  the  four  Gospels. 

On  five  successive  nights  we  were  given  a Chinese 
feast  by  the  various  classes  of  the  community.  First 
the  Governor  and  all  his  officials  invited  us  to  dinner 
and  requested  us  to  address  them.  We  were  able  to 
speak  on  Christianity  and  to  present  the  Governor  and 
General  with  copies  of  the  Bible.  One  of  the  leading 
officials  decided  for  Christ,  to  be  baptized  within  two 
months.  Although  some  300  were  received  into  the 
churches  after  the  meetings  last  year,  marking  them 
avowedly  Christian,  the  Governor  sent  a letter  to  each 
magistrate  of  the  twelve  other  cities  of  the  province 
announcing  the  speakers  and  dates  of  the  province- 
wide meetings,  and  requesting  all  the  officials  to  co- 
operate. Some  forty  educators  and  college  principals 
with  the  Minister  of  Education  entertained  on  another 
evening  and  said  to  us  in  an  address : “Confucianism 
alone  cannot  save  China.  We  need  the  moral  dynamic 
and  principle  of  progress  which  Christianity  can  give. 
Christianity  has  long  appealed  to  the  lower  classes,  but 
has  not  the  time  now  come  for  you  to  appeal  to  the 
leaders  and  educated  men  of  the  nation?”  Several  of 
these  college  principals  expressed  a desire  to  study  the 
life  of  Christ  and  a number  offered  us  the  privilege 
of  opening  Bible  classes  in  the  government  colleges 
themselves.  The  Chamber  of  Commerce  invited  us  to 
address  them  on  two  successive  evenings.  A few  years 
ago  there  was  no  Chamber  here  and  the  men  as  indi- 
viduals were  strongly  hostile  to  Christianity. 

But  the  most  significant  development  of  this  year 
was  the  new  departure  in  organizing  from  this  city  a 
province-wide  campaign  to  carry  the  message  of  Chris- 
tianity to  all  parts  of  Fukien  with  its  11,000,000  inhab- 
itants. Three  hundred  and  fifty  Chinese  workers, 
including  the  strongest  leaders  from  ten  neighboring 


A New 
Standard  of 
Open- 

Mindedness 


Province-wide 


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Amoy  Taotai 
Issued 

Proclamation 


cities,  were  gathered  in  Foochow  for  a week  of  special 
training  in  preparation  for  the  campaigns  in  their  own 
cities.  Some  of  them  traveled  for  ten  days,  a distance 
of  300  miles  by  boat  or  on  foot,  to  attend  the  meetings. 
The  poor  Christians  of  the  province  raised  $4000 
toward  the  cost  of  the  undertaking.  Five  science  lec- 
turers, trained  and  equipped  by  Professor  Robertson  of 
the  Lecture  Department  of  the  Association,  with  five 
Chinese  evangelists  who  had  attended  the  training  con- 
ference, then  went  out  two  by  two  to  the  twelve  sec- 
ondary cities  of  the  province.  In  each  of  these  cities 
the  officials  cooperated,  offering  Guild  Halls,  govern- 
ment buildings,  theaters,  and  in  one  case  part  of  a 
Confucian  temple  for  the  housing  of  the  evangelistic 
meetings.  The  gentry  and  leading  non-Christians  of 
the  whole  countryside  were  invited  into  the  cities, 
together  with  the  local  students  and  officials  to  hear 
the  Christian  message.  After  a few  weeks  of  meetings 
in  these  cities,  which  in  turn  called  in  the  Christian 
workers  and  representatives  of  the  outlying  districts 
and  villages,  the  campaign  was  carried  on  to  the  utmost 
limits  of  the  province.  The  audiences  in  the  first  line 
of  secondary  cities  totaled  81,191.  The  number  of 
inquirers  already  reported  from  Fukien  much  exceeds 
that  for  all  China  in  the  1913  effort. 

After  leaving  Foochow  we  spent  the  next  four 
days  in  Amoy,  the  rich  port  city  in  the  south  of  the 
province.  Before  our  arrival  the  Taotai  or  chief  offi- 
cial, had  sent  out  a proclamation  to  the  men  of  the  city 
and  a message  to  the  officials  of  the  other  cities  of  his 
district,  endorsing  the  meetings.  No  tickets  were  dis- 
tributed because  the  demand  was  so  great.  In  order 
to  gain  admission  to  the  meetings  some  8000  leading 
men  came  to  the  Young  Men’s  Christian  Association 
building  in  person  and  wrote  out  an  application  for 
tickets.  Hundreds  had  to  be  refused.  A luncheon  was 
given  by  the  leading  officials  as  soon  as  we  arrived  in 


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Fukiem  Province-wide  Campaign— Thirteen  Central  and 
200  Smaller  Cities— 9230  Inquirers 


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Three  Thousand 
Sit  through 
Rain 


the  city.  At  this,  addresses  of  welcome  were  given 
by  the  Lieutenant-Governor,  the  Minister  for  Foreign 
Affairs,  representatives  of  the  gentry,  officials.  Cham- 
ber of  Commerce  and  educators,  and  the  American 
Consul.  A special  meeting  of  the  officials  of  the  city 
was  held  at  which  I presented  Christianity  as  the  only 
solution  for  China’s  desperate  need. 

On  the  opening  day  of  the  public  meetings,  more 
than  5000  filled  the  mat-shed  which  had  been  tempora- 
rily erected  in  an  open  square  of  the  city.  I showed 
from  charts  the  material  bankruptcy  of  China  due  to 
her  moral  bankruptcy.  Feeling  was  so  deep  that  some 
of  the  men  were  in  tears.  I spoke  so  strongly  against 
graft  and  corruption  in  official  and  business  life  that 
I was  not  sure  they  would  receive  it.  The  attendance 
on  the  second  night,  however,  was  even  more  remark- 
able. It  was  raining  and  we  were  expecting  that  the 
meeting  would  be  postponed,  as  Chinese  do  not  come 
out  in  their  silk  garments  and  cloth  shoes  on  a rainy 
night.  Upon  arrival  at  the  hall,  we  found  that  men 
had  taken  off  their  undergarments  to  wipe  off  the  wet 
seats  and  sit  upon  these  garments.  The  rain  kept 
coming  through  the  porous  mat-shed,  but  in  spite  of 
this,  3000  men  sat  for  an  hour  as  we  spoke  on  sin, 
endeavoring  to  drive  home  conviction  on  dishonesty, 
gambling  and  impurity,  the  besetting  sins  of  the  city. 
On  the  third  night,  4000  men  came.  When  it  was 
asked  how  many  were  ready  to  become  earnest  inquir- 
ers and  to  join  Bible  classes,  some  1200  non-Christian 
men  gave  in  their  names.  Side  by  side  were  million- 
aires, students,  officials  and  business  men. 

The  chair  was  taken  at  the  various  meetings  by  the 
Lieutenant-Governor,  the  District  Magistrate,  the  Min- 
ister for  Foreign  Affairs  and  the  representative  of  the 
gentry.  During  the  week,  a total  of  12,000  attended 
Professor  Robertson’s  science  lectures  and  more  than 
13,000  the  evangelistic  meetings.  During  each  day  a 


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training  conference  was  held  in  Amoy  as  in  Foochow, 
for  300  Christian  workers,  including  all  the  native 
pastors  of  the  district.  After  attending  the  evangel- 
istic meetings  and  the  conference,  these  men  went  back 
to  the  cities  and  towns  of  the  whole  district  to  carry  on 
similar  meetings  as  part  of  the  Fukien  province-wide 
campaign. 

Following  the  evangelistic  meetings  a campaign  of 
social  service  in  education,  sanitation  and  moral  re- 
form, is  to  be  conducted  throughout  the  province. 
The  section  on  sanitation  was  placed  in  charge  of  the 
missionary  doctors  and  hospitals  of  the  province. 
Some  sixty  per  cent  of  the  children  of  China  die  be- 
fore they  are  two  years  old.  Plague,  cholera,  small- 
pox and  other  diseases  sweep  away  numbers  who 
could  be  saved  by  scientific  sanitation.  We  aim  not 
only  at  the  saving  of  individuals  but  at  the  bringing 
in  of  the  Kingdom  of  God  and  the  establishment  of  a 
new  social  order  in  this  long  stagnant  and  once 
changeless  empire. 

We  began  in  the  far  south  at  Hongkong.  It  is  sig- 
nificant to  note  the  growth  of  the  evangelistic  move- 
ment as  measured  by  the  attendance  on  our  last  four 
visits  to  Hongkong:  these  have  been  respectively  300, 
600,  1500  and  4000  a night.  The  large  native  theater 
which  had  been  reserved  for  the  meetings  was  filled 
each  night  three  times  in  succession,  compelling  us  to 
repeat  each  address  many  times  in  order  to  reach  the 
crowd  attending  the  meetings.  On  the  second  night 
when  inquirers  were  called  for,  over  600  non-Christian 
men  signed  cards  and  have  been  enrolled  in  Bible 
classes.  Separate  meetings  were  held  in  the  various 
colleges,  in  each  of  which  a number  of  non-Christian 
students  decided  to  enter  the  Christian  life.  It  is  a 
striking  fact  that  in  all  the  meetings  held  throughout 
China  this  year,  there  has  been  an  instant  and  large 
response  whenever  inquirers  were  called  for  to  join 


For  a Better 
Social  Order 


Hongkong 

Triple 

Audience  Each 
Night 


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Canton  Victory 

Through 

Disaster 


Students  Join 
the  Church 


Bible  classes,  or  students  longer  in  contact  with  Chris- 
tianity were  asked  to  make  the  final  decision  to  enter 
the  Christian  life. 

In  Canton  we  faced  the  most  difficult  situation  of 
the  entire  tour.  The  so-called  third  revolution  had 
begun,  bombs  were  being  thrown  in  the  streets,  the 
President  had  proclaimed  martial  law  and  the  Gov- 
ernor was  forced  to  forbid  all  public  meetings  of  every 
description  in  the  city.  The  mat-shed  which  had  been 
erected  to  hold  4000  students  had  to  be  torn  down 
unused.  Owing  to  the  present  political  unrest,  and 
the  recent  attempt  to  revive  Confucianism  in  the  city, 
we  feared  that  it  would  be  impossible  to  do  anything 
in  the  way  of  Christian  meetings.  We  were  surprised, 
however,  to  find  that  the  Governor  had  called  together 
all  the  leading  college  principals  and  teachers  of  the 
city  to  confer  with  us.  After  addressing  these  men 
for  an  hour,  they  invited  us  to  a banquet,  and  later 
asked  us  to  address  their  Educational  Association. 
For  the  first  time  the  leading  colleges  of  the  city 
opened  their  doors  for  meetings.  I had  the  privilege 
of  addressing  the  700  students  of  the  great  Normal 
School  which  is  training  the  future  teachers  of  this 
province ; also  the  700  students  of  the  principal  Law 
School  and  other  institutions. 

In  spite  of  the  political  restrictions,  we  were  able 
to  hold  two  meetings  for  non-Christians  in  a church. 
It  was  crowded  with  a picked  audience  of  1300  men. 
Five  hundred  and  thirty  of  the  non-Christians  present 
immediately  entered  Bible  classes  as  inquirers.  One 
hundred  and  fifty  non-Christian  students  decided  to 
begin  the  Christian  life,  including  sixty  medical  stu- 
dents. One  college  principal  writes : “We  are  full  to 
overflowing  with  joy.  On  Sunday  we  received  into 
the  Church  forty-two  students  and  sixteen  others.  I 
have  never  seen  anything  like  it  in  this  school.”  Even 
more  important  was  the  training  conference  for  Chris- 


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Special  Meeting  for  Governor  and  Officials  of  Fukien  Province 


tian  workers.  We  found  gathered  there  1000  Chris- 
tians and  workers  of  all  denominations,  including  150 
from  outlying  cities  and  towns  who  had  come  in  to 
attend  this  training  conference  in  preparation  for  a 
province-wide  campaign  next  year  for  Kwangtung, 
which  numbers  37,000,000  inhabitants. 

In  Shanghai  meetings  were  held  for  a week  in  the  Shanghai— 
various  colleges  and  the  largest  theater.  One  meeting  Boys  by 
was  announced  for  boys  at  three  o’clock  in  the  after-  Thousands 
noon.  Two  hours  before  the  time  a messenger  came 
running  to  say  the  theater  was  filling  rapidly.  On 
arrival  we  found  4800  boys  between  twelve  and  eight- 
een years  of  age,  3000  being  in  the  theater  and  the 
others  in  an  overflow  meeting  in  a neighboring  church, 
until  they  could  be  admitted  to  a second  meeting  in  the 


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Nanking:  Opens 
with  Governor 
Present 


Leadership 
Yielded  to 
Abler  Hen 


theater.  A letter  just  received  reports  many  of  them 
organized  in  Bible  classes  and  twelve  boys  already 
baptized. 

The  last  city  of  the  tour  was  Nanking,  an  ancient 
capital  of  China.  Here,  as  in  Canton,  there  were  many 
adverse  circumstances.  The  officials,  however,  coop- 
erated in  arranging  for  the  meetings  in  a remarkable 
way.  The  Governor  had  granted  the  large  Exposition 
Theater  and  the  use  of  the  city  railway  to  carry'  all 
students  and  officials  to  and  from  the  meetings  free 
of  charge.  As  we  drove  out  to  the  first  meeting,  we 
found  the  roads  lined  with  troops  for  three  miles,  in 
honor  of  the  Governor’s  presence  at  the  opening  meet- 
ing. As  soon  as  the  Civil  and  Military  Governors 
arrived,  we  began  with  an  audience  of  2000  inside  the 
theater,  while  an  equal  number  of  students  were  kept 
standing  for  an  hour  in  an  overflow  meeting,  listening 
to  Professor  Robertson’s  scientific  lecture  until  their 
turn  came  to  be  admitted  to  the  evangelistic  meeting. 
On  the  second  day',  likewise,  over  4000  again  attended. 
The  Governor’s  wife  took  the  chair  at  my  wife’s  open- 
ing meeting,  attended  by  some  3000  of  the  leading 
women  of  the  city,  including  the  wives  of  the  officials. 

On  the  first  day  we  showed  that  China’s  present 
material  bankruptcy  is  due  to  her  moral  bankruptcy, 
while  on  the  second  we  showed  that  Christianity  offers 
the  only  hope  for  China  in  the  future.  On  the  last  day, 
after  speaking  for  three  days  with  a sore  throat,  I was 
forced  to  stop  at  the  end  of  five  months  of  almost  con- 
tinuous work  in  China.  Two  men  carried  the  meet- 
ings to  a successful  conclusion,  far  better  than  I could 
have  done.  These  were  Mr.  C.  T.  Wang,  the  former 
\’ice-President  of  the  Senate,  who  had  been  our  inter- 
preter throughout  the  meetings,  and  !Mr.  M’en,  the 
Secretary  of  State  of  Chekiang  Province,  baptized 
during  our  meetings  in  Hangchow.  It  was  a signifi- 
cant fact  that  the  man  who  completed  the  meetings 


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was  himself  a new 
convert  of  only  a few 
weeks’  Christian  ex- 
perience. 

Let  me  now  gather  An  Effort  to 
up  a few  outstanding  Analyze 
facts  from  this  tour  of 
five  months  in  China. 

First  is  the  remarkable 
attendance,  which  is 
an  index  of  the  pres- 
ent evangelistic  oppor- 
tunity among  the  stu- 
dents and  official 
classes  of  China.  The 
total  attendance  for 
last  year  at  the  evan- 
gelistic meetings  was 
78,230  ; this  year  it  was 
more  than  double  that 
number.  While  last 
year  there  were  7000 
inquirers,  this  year 
there  were  over  18,000, 

Fukien  Province  alone 
reporting  9230.  Foo- 
chow reports  the  first 
fifty  non-Christian  stu- 
dents already  baptized ; 

Canton  over  seventy. 

A Buddhist  priest  from 
Amoy  has  sent  me  his 
sacred  robes,  bell  and 
drum,  with  his  Budd- 

Salt  Commissioner,  a Foremost  SCriptureS  and  haS 

Official  of  Fukien  Province,  Con-  bcCOmc  a Christian 
VERTED  During  Ca.mpaign  after  fifteen  years  of 


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Official 

Attitude 

Beyond 

Precedent 


The  Method 
and  Spirit 
Contagious 


fruitless  search  for  peace  in  a Buddhist  monas- 
tery. 

A second  noteworthy  feature  is  the  remarkable  co- 
operation on  the  part  of  the  officials  of  China.  From 
the  President  down,  the  leading  officials  received  us 
with  great  cordiality,  hospitality  and  openness  of  mind. 
The  Vice-President  and  the  Governors  of  the  prov- 
inces we  visited  entertained  us  and  requested  us  to 
address  them,  affording  the  privilege  of  bringing  pub- 
licly before  many  of  them  for  the  first  time  the  claims 
of  Christ,  and  the  opportunity  to  present  Christianity 
as  the  only  adequate  solution  for  China’s  crucial  prob- 
lems. These  officials  in  some  cases  took  the  chair  at 
meetings,  erected  pavilions  for  the  evangelistic  meet- 
ings, or  sent  proclamations  through  their  city  or 
province  with  favorable  announcements  of  the  meet- 
ings. They  for  the  first  time  as  a class  gave  earnest 
attention  to  the  public  presentation  of  Jesus  Christ  and 
His  Gospel,  and  by  their  remarkable  openness  of  mind, 
threw  open  to  us  not  only  the  official  classes  but  the 
students  and  leaders  of  China  for  a great  evangelistic 
forward  movement. 

Thirdly,  the  development  of  the  new  province-wide 
campaign  will  make  possible  the  reaching  in  time  of 
the  remotest  country  districts  of  Inland  China.  We 
have  now  proved  the  success  of  this  method  of  train- 
ing the  Christian  leaders  of  a province,  sending  out 
the  workers  two  by  two  to  visit  the  secondary  cities 
and  from  these  in  turn  carrying  the  Christian  message 
to  the  outlying  towns  and  villages.  In  each  of  the 
thirteen  cities  of  Fukien,  the  results  were  beyond  our 
highest  expectation.  In  some  towns  the  mayor,  with 
nearly  all  the  leading  officials  and  government  teachers 
of  the  city,  joined  Bible  classes  and  became  inquirers 
after  the  meetings.  Already  other  provinces  are  de- 
manding similar  campaigns  for  the  next  year. 


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After  4000  years  of  preparation  and  100  years  of  A Determining; 
missions,  the  doors  are  thrown  wide  open  in  China  for  Decade 
reaching  the  officials,  the  educators,  the  students  and 
the  leaders  of  a nation  that  number  one  quarter  of  the 
human  race.  Already  there  are  signs  of  the  beginning 
of  a Confucian  revival  which  indicate  that  this  oppor- 
tunity will  not  be  prolonged  indefinitely.  We  must 
press  our  advantage  immediately  in  the  length  and 
breadth  of  the  Chinese  Republic.  To  call  for  retreat, 
retrenchment,  or  the  closing  of  work  at  a time  when 
China  is  thus  open  would  be  disastrous  beyond  com- 
putation. Rather  we  must  advance.  Succeeding  cen- 
turies may  not  bring  back  the  opportunity  of  this  dec- 
ade. As  the  former  Vice-President  of  the  Senate 
said  after  visiting  these  cities,  “Give  us  a decade  and 
we  can  have  the  leaders  of  China  for  Christ.” 


iAs  we  go  to  press,  a report  has  been  received  from 
Dr.  W.  E.  Taylor  of  Shanghai,  national  director  of 
the  efficient  follow-up  work,  which  shows  that  the 
total  attendance  at  the  evangelistic  meetings  alone  was 
over  200,000 ; that  more  than  18,000  were  enrolled  as 
inquirers ; that  some  10,000  have  entered  Bible  classes ; 
and  that  every  mail  registers  men  being  received  into 
the  Churches. 


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